Word: powerlessness
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...Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America. Harvard students of the past knew the hypocrisy of advocating war and then refusing to serve. It is time that 31 percent of today’s students realized this. When the privileged call for war but refuse to fight, the powerless are drafted to fight in their place. This manipulation of the poor and uneducated undermines the equality that America is supposed to represent...
...foreign policies too are creating more enemies than friends for the superpower. Tyrants and undemocratic governments have been backed for reasons of self-interest with no regard for the people of these places. Globalization is seen by millions as yet another system that enriches the privileged and entraps the powerless. This is not simple envy but genuine outrage about inequality...
There are two opposing forces operating in my mind. On the one hand, part of me knows that I’m virtually powerless to actually reduce my chances of being the victim of a terrorist act. Assuming I stick to my decision not to move to rural Idaho, there is no way for me to eliminate the danger of attack altogether...
Huddled in their house in Freetown, Edgar and his family were utterly powerless. They had no idea what the mercenaries meant to do or how long the shooting would last. They waited in their house all day and all night until it seemed safe to venture outside again. “All you could hear were bombs and all you could see was smoke,” says Edgar. The nightmare took an even more frightening turn when Edgar looked out the window to see the President of Sierra Leone’s helicopter over head. Though there were competing...
It’s like having both my hands cut off. Or a piece of flesh extracted from under my ribcage. I would give blood, but the hospitals are overwhelmed; I would volunteer, but what good can an untrained teen do while stranded in Massachusetts? Powerless to do anything, powerless to say anything, the only thing left to do is to wait. And to watch: those images, over and over, from one angle then another, from below, from above, from the street corners on which I’ve stood and the restaurants at which I’ve eaten...